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Walmart stands for everything that is wrong with the North American economy… they buy 94 % of their items from China , they pay their employees slave wages and they chase away the competition by undercutting them.

Any consumer with an interest in more than just the immediate amount of money in their wallet should boycott Walmart .

Well, if crusty and her merry band of fiberals would stop robbing me blind, maybe I’d have more money to spend in places other than Walmart. But living paycheque to paycheque is exhausting and when I need new underwear or socks or, you know, food, I’m going to go where it’s cheaper.

So, what do you disagree with? The economy is better because of Walmart? They support local products? They pay great wages? Local businesses trying to make a living are happy when Walmart moves to town? They don’t undercut? We should all shop Walmart for everything?
If you’re going to waste your time attempting to make a point, at least make one.

exactly – we more people to do that … otherwise in a few years we won’t have any choice of where to shop because Walmart will have killed all the competition – and everything we buy will come from Asia

Here in South Surrey David . . . the Walleymart Super Store has kept the Safeway and SaveOn guys Honest. I shop at ALL of them . . . but avoid ALL food stuffs that come from China, which can be found in all the above stores.

Trade with China is growing . . . we sell the lumber, coal, copper and soon CNG and oil . . . this is going to Grow the Canadian Economy for the future.

Manitoba Joe and the gang are all here yapping about Walmart and how great Chinese products are, why not trying ti support products that are made in Canada sure seems strange when a guy from the NDP will pay a little more to support Canadian products! what your problem? Seem’s Rachel Notley, what’s to do just that value added ,but as we see here there will be the Radical Right boo birds call foul, as usual.GO NDO GO

You likely are wearing Chinese Sneakers . . . I do not !
You are likely wearing Chinese underwear . . . and I just bet you drive a Korean car . . .

Notley and her Che watch will do What for Alberta? High taxes, spending and govt interference in the free market . . . the Public Sector Unions are rubbing their hands in glee anticipating their new generous contracts.

Just shop there but don’t work there. Just like anything else set yourself up with the education, work experience, and professional licensing so you earn more. This perception that we have to preserve the domestic economy by driving Chevolets no Hondas, eating only local not international, buying from small shops, etc. isn’t correct. We are becoming and will become a world economy. Every time you buy a video game now a days it’s just the code for you to download, watch a movie filmed else where, eat out you’re served by new immigrants, etc.. this is not good or bad it’s the reality of the times. Don’t believe me, go in to any Walmart saturday afternoon, it’s busy as heck in there.

Yes, but it’s only busy because they’re cheap – certainly not because of the quality or service.
As a consumer, I can choose to support my neighbour from the local butcher who really knows his product or buy cheaper Walmart meat (it’s even hard to say that) with no clue of it’s freshness, origin or quality. It’s just not going to happen in my house.

Well put….why would I want to buy produce imported from China that has been grown under who knows what condition ? WHat are we going to have left in Canada once all of our manufacturing sector is transplanted to Asia or South America ?
other that fall back to natural resource extraction what is left for us if we keep on this path ?

The quality? Walmart is only a medium for the products for most people. So you buy Sony, Microsoft, Fresh Express, Maple Leaf, etc. products at Walmart but you can also buy the same products at other stores but the quality is entirely dependent on the supplier companies that produce them. You may want re-think your logic.

Sammy: Good points. Remember when General Motors was in trouble and our government helped them out.
Every second car in the staff parking lot was a foreign make.
My dad taught me to support the employer who pays me a paycheque.

Yes exactly. I ask these Domestic Protecting Pretenders what if I was born here, graduated from University here in say Engineering and work for Honda Canada and make a good Engineering wage? Pay taxes to the government like anybody else here. I see these Pretenders crying buy Chevys protect the domestic economy. I don’t know what to do except to flat out ask them are you F*&ing kidding me? My advice. Live your life, buy the things you like at the price you like where you like but don’t pretend you’re a saviour of anything. Case closed.